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If it does so, I believe it'll be Scorsese's highest grossing film worldwide. Edit: Holy shit, I can't read. Just took a nap and realized how bad my comprehension was.

Today's movies: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Removed from childhood, this is extremely weird. It reeks of a Mary Poppins knock off: less charming and inventive, and the children characters are more annoying. It's also surprisingly based on a novel by Ian Fleming. (Truly Scrumptious would fit right in as a classic Bond Girl name.) Somehow, the thing lasts nearly 2.5 hours, so it's excessively bloated. The fantasy plot that takes up the latter half is mostly terrible, but the Sherman Brothers' songs are fun and catchy. The Fox and the Hound - Not the worst of Disney's Dark Age, but definitely one of the studio's weaker efforts.

Calendar year is an idiotic statement for box office. Films have releases that bridge the new year all the time. I mean, does that mean Avatar wasn't the biggest movie of 2009? But it was the biggest movie of 2010? And Return of the King wasn't the biggest movie of either 2003 or 2004? And Catching Fire isn't the biggest movie of 2013? The best you can say is that DM2 is currently the biggest animated movie of 2013. In a few weeks it will no longer be.

Very interesting how different people have different views on what is crap or not.

Well that's two of my top four.

Silverado, anyone? Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner Danny Glover Brian Dennehy John Cleese Jeff Goldblum Linda Hunt Or Prometheus? Noomi Rapace Charlize Theron Michael Fassbender Idris Elba Guy Pearce Rafe Spall Benedict Wong Or Thor: The Dark World? Chris Hemsworth Natalie Portman Tom Hiddleston Anthony Hopkins Christopher Eccleston Idris Elba Rene Russo Kat Dennings Stellan Skarsgard Ray Stevenson Zachari Levi Tadanobu Asano Jaime Alexander

Superhero films have a tendency to make for some very good trailers. And WiR had some good ones, too. So when the first one for this drops, I expect it'll be pretty epic.

While it won't happen this weekend (DM2 had a holiday boost), Frozen stands a good shot grossing more next Friday than DM2 did its entire 10th weekend.

It would be difficult. Although not impossible. It's likely all three of the openers will be ahead of it, and Ride Along still should be. Depending on how That Awkward Moment opens, it might fall behind, too. Over Valentines, though, probably not. Unless it gets a huge boost from the couples crowd.

Yeah. It's going from having legs that are really good for a modern film to having legs that are really good for any film. There's a chance it could stay in the top 5 again next weekend, too. If it's #4 this weekend, it only needs to stay ahead of one of the new openers to do it. And if it's #5, well, it should have no problem surpassing Yo, Frankenstein next weekend. (I'd say it stands a shot at out-earning The Nut Job, too.)

Avatar.

Is that an Onion article?

It's possible to be successful in the early November slot, but it's pretty much dooming your movie to a one month run, because it will die post-Thanksgiving. If you take the Thanksgiving slot, you get the bonus from the immediate holiday, and even with the post-holiday drop, there's probably enough juice to get you INTO the Christmas boost, even if you don't expect to perform on the level of Frozen. (Which would be a dumb assumption to make for any film, at least until it happens.) I get that studios keep wanting to dodge the behemoth that takes the pre-Thanksgiving slot. Disney apparently got gunshy when Bolt went up against the first Twilight and wasn't able to break out. But they've seen three surprising successes in the Thanksgiving slot (Enchanted, Tangled, and Frozen). The studio has clout and they might as well take the best advantage of it. I think that Thor 2 and WiR did okay. It's just that with the size of their openings, it's readily apparent that their legs were not up to snuff. And even the PIxar successes like MI and The Incredibles had strong openings but less than stellar legs. The aforementioned mid-November behemoth is more likely to hurt the early November film than the one opening over Thanksgiving. Rise of the Guardians, for all that it disappointed in the final, did pretty well over Christmas relative to its opening.

Yeah, I figure. It's going to be just like all the trainwreck of productions trying to do Akira. I understand why they'd do it, but it's such a bad idea. Akira is basically an impossible story to tell removed from the Japan setting. GitS isn't quite that bad but it'll still be difficult to work.

I would very easily go see I, Frankenstein before ever considering The Nut Job.

Oh, god. I hope they don't Americanize the setting.

Yeah. I'm wondering if it shuffles again to the old Ant-Man slot.

But it's just a flat-out worse release date than Thanksgiving. It's the date you should take if you can't slot your movie into the better slot. It's not a date that's better for boy-focused films. Disney has the strength as a studio right now. They should force Home to move. Four. Maleficent definitely has the potential to hit 200M. I'd say there's also an extremely outside shot that Into the Woods does it, if only because it's Disney's next musical. Difficult for animation in general. Besides those six, only The Lion King did it as well. And while nobody expects BH6 to do Frozen numbers, its stock has definitely risen thanks to Frozen, so if it only does WiR numbers at this point, it will probably be a mild disappointment, though a successful one. (Somewhat similar to Thor 2, actually.)

Men in Black?

So 11 Years a Slave would have been fine?

I'm sure when she gets her website, there will be a section for next week's box office numbers... today!

Disney Animation in general doesn't do IMAX. Actually, very few animated films do. None are filmed in IMAX format/resolution, so you're really just in it for a bigger screen. Which is usually something you'd look for in case of big, live-action explosions. (Dreamworks may go for IMAX more often. I saw How To Train Your Dragon on an IMAX screen in London.) Also, most IMAX screens (at least in the US) tend to get dedicated to one film at a time. Catching Fire had them at the time of Frozen's release (since it did have IMAX footage), and The Hobbit took them a few weeks later.

That's really impressive, considering it's still Thursday.

On that thought. What's the status of the Tele Frozen watch?

I think at this point it's well known that it's a musical, even in China.